Showing posts with label Buckinghamshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buckinghamshire. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2025

GUEST POST Local councillors changing party: Augustus Carp’s review of 2025

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Augustus Carp finds the Conservatives are losing local councillors, but not as fast as Labour are losing them, and Reform UK are gaining. B...
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Joy of Six 1412

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Chris Grey analyses the dangers of the new far right in Britain: "It seems to be quite different to earlier versions of far-right poli...
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Saturday, May 24, 2025

GUEST POST Forget your two-horse race: Increasingly it's a cavalry charge

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Augustus Carp wanders off from his usual subjective enquiries into councillor defections to consider some objective examples of real voters...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

London's lost underground lines - with a note on the wine cellar of the National Liberal Club

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Jago Hazzard is our guide to a collection of lost lines, repurposed lines and abandoned oddments, some of them 50 miles out of London and de...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Nick Cohen's podcast: Don't back any horses tipped by Nick Tyrone

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Embed from Getty Images Nick Cohen's latest podcast dropped two days ago. His guest, billed as an expert on the Conservative Party, was ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

GUEST POST 256 local councillors have changed party allegiance since 1 January

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Local councillors are leaving the party under whose name they stood - and often joining a different one - in remarkable numbers, finds Augus...
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Sunday, March 02, 2025

GUEST POST Defections of local councillors have doubled in 2025

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Augustus Carp sees early signs that the shifting of tectonic plates in national and international politics may be reflected in local govern...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nowhere to Go: Maggie Smith's first credited film role

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Yesterday we saw the first television appearance by Julie Walters . Tonight it's Maggie Smith's first credited film role, which was ...
Monday, August 05, 2024

An epic adventure to Sniggs Alley and the oldest pub in England

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From the blurb on YouTube: Great walk to find a location from best-selling author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books nestled in...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Those Lib Dem targets for the next general election in full

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Mullaney, who was our candidate in Hinckley and Bosworth on Thursday, has tweeted a list of the Liberal Demo...
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Monday, May 27, 2024

The soft man of Brexit? Steve Baker goes on holiday during the election campaign

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Steve Baker, who had a majority of 4214 over Labour in his Wycombe constituency in 2019, has flown off to Crete for a holiday, despite the g...
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Thursday, March 07, 2024

When the Underground went to Aylesbury

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From 1948 to 1961 Aylesbury was the terminus of the Metropolitan's main line, and trains had to change from electric to steam locomotive...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Is the Ridgeway really 5000 years old?

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Paul Whitewick takes us from Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns to Wiltshire. There we see Liddington Castle, which was sacred to Richard Jeff...